Education (EDU) BOF

1. Education (EDU) BOF IETF 57 – Vienna, Austria Margaret Wasserman mrw@windriver.com

2. Purposes of this BOF • Give the community visibility into our current educational activities • Get feedback on our ideas to enhance and expand IETF educational activities • Reach consensus on how these activities should be organized and run

3. Scope of this Discussion • Internal education for IETF participants • Including newcomers, editors, WG chairs, etc. • Focus on process and role education • Help people come-up-to-speed quickly and succeed in their roles and responsibilities • Includes technical training required to succeed in each role, such as security training • NOT outward-facing education/tutorials • NOT WG-specific training

4. EDU BOF Agenda • Intro and Agenda Bashing – Margaret (5 min) • Review Existing Programs and Resources – Margaret (10 min) • Plans/Direction for Participant Education • Newcomer's and General -- Margaret (10 min) • Security Tutorial – Radia Perlman (10 min) • Plans/Direction for Editor Education – Avri Doria (10 min) • Plans/Direction for WG Chair Education – Margaret (10 min) • Organization Strawman – Margaret (10 min) • Open Discussion (30 min) • Next Steps and Action Items (20 min)

5. Current Educational Activities • Formal training classes • Participants • Newcomer's training • Security tutorial • Occasional plenary presentations • Working Group Chairs • Introductory training • Topical training sessions

6. Current Educational Activities • Web Resources • Overview web page • WG chairs web page • Published Documents • "Tao of the IETF"

7. Education Pointers • For Newcomers: • http://www.ietf.org/newcomer/frame.htm • http://www.ietf.org/overview.html • For WG Chairs: • http://psg.com/~mrw/WGChairs_Training_Mar03.ppt • http://www.ietf.org/IESG/wgchairs.html • Examples of Participant Training: • http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/01dec/slides/plenary-3/index.html • http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/02mar/slides/plenary-3/index.html

8. Current Organization • Training resources have grown from different sources • IESG, secretariat, grass roots • Informal group has started loosely coordinating these activities • No web presence, mailing list, etc. • Minimal community visibility and input

9. How can you help? • Let us know what type of help you need • Your current educational needs • Things that would have helped you earlier • Volunteer • For education team • To teach topical sessions • To help us develop materials, websites, etc.

10. EDU BOF Agenda • Intro and Agenda Bashing – Margaret (5 min) • Review Existing Programs and Resources – Margaret (10 min) • Plans/Direction for Participant Education • Newcomer's and General -- Margaret (10 min) • Security Tutorial – Radia Perlman (10 min) • Plans/Direction for Editor Education – Avri Doria (10 min) • Plans/Direction for WG Chair Education – Margaret (10 min) • Organization Strawman – Margaret (10 min) • Open Discussion (30 min) • Next Steps and Action Items (20 min)

11. Participant Education Plans/Ideas Margaret Wasserman mrw@windriver.com

12. Newcomer's Session • Newcomer's session held Sunday afternoon at every IETF • Provides brief introduction to processes and culture of the IETF • Historically developed and taught by the secretariat, now by Scott Bradner

13. Ideas for Participant Education • Regular training sessions for participants • On process, culture, roles, timely topics or technical issues with wide impact • During plenaries or brown-bag lunches? • Mentoring program • Formal or more informal • Educational resources for non-North American participants

14. What do you think? • Feedback on newcomer's training • Ideas for participant education moving forward

15. EDU BOF Agenda • Intro and Agenda Bashing – Margaret (5 min) • Review Existing Programs and Resources – Margaret (10 min) • Plans/Direction for Participant Education • Newcomer's and General -- Margaret (10 min) • Security Tutorial – Radia Perlman (10 min) • Plans/Direction for Editor Education – Avri Doria (10 min) • Plans/Direction for WG Chair Education – Margaret (10 min) • Organization Strawman – Margaret (10 min) • Open Discussion (30 min) • Next Steps and Action Items (20 min)

16. EDU BOF Agenda • Intro and Agenda Bashing – Margaret (5 min) • Review Existing Programs and Resources – Margaret (10 min) • Plans/Direction for Participant Education • Newcomer's and General -- Margaret (10 min) • Security Tutorial – Radia Perlman (10 min) • Plans/Direction for Editor Education – Avri Doria (10 min) • Plans/Direction for WG Chair Education – Margaret (10 min) • Organization Strawman – Margaret (10 min) • Open Discussion (30 min) • Next Steps and Action Items (20 min)

17. WG Chairs Education Plans/Ideas Margaret Wasserman mrw@windriver.com

18. Current WG Chair Education • Formal training sessions • Introductory training, repeated each IETF • Topical sessions • Both held at WG chairs training lunches • WG Chairs Web Site

19. Previous Discussions • Group of WG chairs and IESG members met in SF to discuss WG chairs education • Feedback on current introductory training • Has been incorporated into latest materials • Many other suggestions included here • Identified need for editors training, as well • Notes can be found at:http://www.psg.com/~mrw/WGChairs_Training_Notes_Mar03.txt

20. Ideas for WG Chairs Education • Training sessions on timely topics • Open discussion sessions • WG Chairs FAQ • WG Chairs mentoring program • Often covered by having two chair(s), including one with experience

21. EDU BOF Agenda • Intro and Agenda Bashing – Margaret (5 min) • Review Existing Programs and Resources – Margaret (10 min) • Plans/Direction for Participant Education • Newcomer's and General -- Margaret (10 min) • Security Tutorial – Radia Perlman (10 min) • Plans/Direction for Editor Education – Avri Doria (10 min) • Plans/Direction for WG Chair Education – Margaret (10 min) • Organization Strawman – Margaret (10 min) • Open Discussion (30 min) • Next Steps and Action Items (20 min)

22. Organization of the EDU Effort Margaret Wasserman mrw@windriver.com

23. Scope of the Effort • Internal education for IETF participants • Including newcomers, editors, WG chairs, etc. • Focusing on process and role education • Help people come-up-to-speed quickly and succeed in their roles and responsibilities • Includes technical training required to succeed in each role

24. Nature of the Effort • Web pages and web-based educational resources • Regular classes, taught on an ongoing basis • One-time sessions for ongoing participants • Programs to help people come up-to-speed quickly and be successful in their roles

25. Not quite like an IETF WG • Don't produce standards or technical docs • "Customers" are internal, not external • Materials and resources are not permanent • Requires logistical coordination and tactical planning for each IETF meeting • Need to update existing material and develop new material for each IETF

26. But, we do need… • Community visibility • Web presence, open mailing list archives, periodic open meetings? • Community feedback • Quality/relevance feedback from participants • Program/priority feedback from community • Support/mandate from the community • To coordinate/manage these efforts

27. Organization Strawman • Form an education team to run this effort • General AD appoints a leader • Leader and AD choose team from volunteers, refresh and expand the team as needed • Team membership publicly known

28. Community Visibility Feedback • IETF web page for educational activities • Public discussion mailing list • Education team archives publicly available • Occasional (~yearly?) open meetings at IETF

29. Comments or Questions?

30. Next Steps • Do we have agreement on how this effort should be organized going forward? • What are the top two or three priorities for this effort?